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Chicago examiner thursday Chicago may 19 1910 14 pages thursday registered in c 8 patent offic f t _â€”_â– __- _._- â€” priÃŸ cooking for ojom m if you wish to obtain employment or k^'li desire to make a change read oie ex fv | \ j aminer want ads many good oppor %'~ j y \ tunities are offered dally ln the frf m fielp wanted columns if , price one cent gf Â»Â»Â«â€¢Â« y cÂ«ru 30 cents per aox_t rr~r r ""'" lnl!f ' j"**w i*;".i-*-i j____n_bc3p wl the weather m lvf/1 Chicago and vicinity partiy yjsfji t tr cloudy thursday and friday pos t j \, il sibly showers friday not much t â– *' l to change in temperature southerly m j_f winds (^ vol viii no 128 a m speaker cannon in excited plea to manufacturers declares shooting is too good for traitors like the insurgents . calls rebels judases urges employers to get their 5,000,000 workers to join in mighty battle njjw vork may 18 uncle joe can mjn speaker of the hous f uepresent bflves stood uke a man witli bis back to tke wall at ilie waldorf-astoria to-night and pleaded with the manufacturers of the country to save the republican port from defeat next november his plea won the applause of the members of the national manufacturers association who pledged him their wannest support uncle joe was so vehement iu liis ex j clamatious and s emphatic in ids punctua tions that lie frequently got beside him i self he strung his arms right and left ! pointed his lingers l,,se into the faces pfl those who sat beside him and was ssoin i pelled lo st,*;id himself for support on ilie ; chair of president kirby who sa along f side of him watson's sendees not needed speaker cannon brought along with bim ex-congressman lames watson of indiana j former republican whip in the house and j a devoted cannonite it wns said that mr i watson was on hand to follow the ener j i-'ctic and excited speaker and correct anj _ blunders lhat might creep into the can uon speech there were none of these j however despite mr cannon's obvious ex l citement the speaker branded the insurgents in j congress as traitors and declared thai in war time they would be hanged for deser ! tion of a leader under fire he likened them also to judas scariot whom he said { they would have underbid iu their anxiety to betray their master i ask you men of business and men of affairs he said that wheu you go to your homes you get iu touch with your live or six million employes and make a mighty right striking from the shoulder , and standing by the policy of the itepubli , nn party so that when the polls close next november you will give -Â„ repub lican majority in the national congress warmly defends tariff law the speaker warmly defended the payne tariff law and declared that under it 7,1 der cent of the importations of the coun try are admitted duty free ruder the walker tariff of 1860 a democratic tariff he declared the ratio of free importation was oniy lm per cent the policy of lincoln as written by himself in the platform of 1860 is the policy of the republican parly to-day we had a change in 189h of lhat poli.'y and we felt the tntter experience of that chauge and now our friends the enemy jo out to the farmers and say ou hew you are oppressed by wall street and how t manufacturers oppress you and bov on pay too mueh for your meat and coin ' " ob some one may say canuon is disappointed he is a czar dethroned 1 want to say to you that i might drop dead here th minute and there would be no one but iny children to mourn me i am spcaiciug as a plain man of the conditions in the house and the conditions in the senate this minute suggests hanging of traitors vou sny vhat are we goiug to do about uv if there were two great armies in actual war drawn up facing each other and in oue army were those who professed to be of it but refused to charge wheu the command was given by the general iu command and availed themselves of that condition to betray their army to the oppos ing forces you kuow what would be done with the traitors they would be shot shouted some one in the audience shooting would be au houorable death retorted lucie joe lu actual war they ivould be hanged to the nearest tree i wouldn't mind seeing our democratic and fopullstic friends have full power continued mr cannon it would then be up to tbem to re-enact a new tariff law they would then have that to defend and the presidential election of 1012 would hinge on the result i would welcome the sight of dolliver bristow la follette and others from the west join hands with champ clark sud reform the tariff i would welcome such a result calhoun asks warship v s minister to china reports 1m i_uietiiiji vnti-forcig*n rumors washington may 18 william j calhoun ameriean minister to china ad vised the state department to-day that there are disquieting anti-foreign and anti dynastie rumors at nanking not unlike those whieh preceded the boxer uprising about ten years ago the members of the cousular corps there mr calhoun added have presented a memorandum to the vice roy calling his attention to the serious condition and emphasizing the importance of taking immediate steps to check the anti-foriegn sentiment mr calhoun sug gested that an american warship be sent to nanking denver downs beast and votes referendum municipal ownership of water is carried and judge ben lindsey hails victory denver colo may is municipal ownership scored a triumph iu yesterday's election iu denver the denver union wa ter company being tumed down by more than 3,000 majority and tlie proposition to buy its plant or erect a new oae beiug car ried probably by a thousand vote judge ben b lindsey sees in the vote a big vic tory over the beast iu the jungle the citizens amendment for the initiative ref erendum and recall was carried by a few hundred majority the wel majority will run from 15,000 to 17,000 this is ibe first cily of impor tance where women bave ri>t ou the prohibition question the democrats have . elected ihe entire cily ticket excepting ihe ejection commis sion which i still iu doubt wiih twenty precincts io hear from it wiil be either democratic or * riii.<ei,s u s saves bluefields i prohibit bombs rdiacnt of town by l:tdri ami mstr.ida forces washington d <'.. may 18.â€”com mander gilmer in command of the united i stales gunboat padncnh has served notice lon the commanders of the madriz and estrada forces and m general arias who is in charge of the madriz converted war ship venus thai there shall he no armed conflict in tlie city only armed forces not exceeding one hundred men will be sllbw(Â»d in blueflelds for pojice purposes until si stable government is established xo bombardment of the city will he per tained as there is no armed force in blueflelds and such bombardment could result only iu the destruction of the lives and property of american or otber foreign non-combatants col ames is arrested will lie court martialcd follo*viii t.icol inniioy's suicide j manila may is â€” lieutenant foiouel robert !â€¢'. ames to-day was coutined to ; quarters ami will be court niaitialed on j charges of conduct unbecoming an officer land to the prejudice of military discipline . the action is a sequel to the investigation lof the suicide of lieutenant clarence m janney of the twelfih infantry t s a following a dinner party at the home of ames at l'ort william mckinley last mareh mrs janney probably will be the chief witness janney recognized a cham pagne cooler belonging to him which bis j wife had given to ames mrs pullman stronger report from hospital indicate an early hwoicry mrs george m pullman who underwent an operatiou for gall stoues at st luke's hospital tuesday was reported resting easily yesterday and apparently on the road to nn early recovery mrs pullman was mueh stronger than her physicians hoped anil w-iihstood the effects of the opera tion well hei daughters mrs rank car olan and mrs frank o lowden were with her her son-in-law congressman v o lowden also spent considerable time at her bedside crespigny is a suicide life loinrlls it|>titiii who visited america shoots himself special cahle to the examiner i.iindu.n may 18 captain claude champion de crespigny of the i ife guards a member of the hurlinghain clnb polo team that recently visited america committed suicide to-day b.v shootiug him self he was lhe son of sir claude de crespigny aiul served with distinction in the boer war duma's president jailed sentenced to month in fortress for fighting a dnel special cable to the examiner st petersburg may 18 alexander guchkoff president of the duma who fought a duel witb count uvaroff to set tle a political quarrel was tried and found guilty to-day and seutenced to a month's imprisonment in a fortress count cvaroff who was wounded in the shoulder by his adversary was let off with three weeks imprisonment 100 killed when barracks blow up 3,000 pounds of dynamite explode at pinar del rio cuba victims hurled a mile i 100 injured officers and families buried town showered by debris special cable to the examiuer havana may is two almost simul taneous explosions of dynamite i.oooj pounds in all demolished the rural guard ' barracks in the city of pinar del rio thisi afternoon killed fully a hundred persons j and wounded nearly as many more captain alfredo ravena and captain caspar be ten court of the garrison and their families are reported to be buried in tiie ruins of the officers quarters ad jacent to the barracks no other names have been learned here most of the dead were rural guards j but the entire families of several officers | of cue guard if is reported were killed also as well as some employes of the j public works department nnd residents ofi the city on which fell a deluge of masonry and other debris it is nol known whether the explosion wns ihe result of an accident or the work of conspirators but it probably was acci dental formerly u s headquarters several relief trains carrying rural guard surgeons officers and men and government officials started tbis afternoon from ha vana to the scene of the catastrophe 10s miles distant the barracks a massive building of spanish construction stood on a hill in the outskirts of the eity to the north during the late intervention it was the headquarters of colonel parker's regiment the eleventh v _. cavalry in consequence of the alarm over race disturbances the government ordered all deposits of dynamite in the i-vinity to be removed to the barracks for safe keeping accident during removal this afternoon the , work uf removing ; the dynamite from the barracks for ship tnent-tfr fife government magazines in havana was begun by employes of the public works department assisted by rural guards they were loading cases of the dynamite on wagons when a terrific explosion oc curred instantly followed by another strewing the central court in which the work was goiug on with dead and wounded the whole massive barracks building was destroyed the adjacent row of officers quarters was demolished and the whole northern section of the city was deluged with _ torrent of fragments of masonry victims blown a mile it is believed that the majority of the wounded are residents of the town as practically all within the barracks were in stantly killed or buried in the ruins according to reports received here mangled remains of victims wcre found in the streets of the city a mile from the scene of the explosion there is great anxiety iu havana for a large number of the rural garrison at pinar del rio recently were sent from this city where their families live clara morris is worse total blindne seems f'erlain actress physician say*s yoxkees x y may 18 xo hope now ; s entertained of preventing mrs i ,'. herriott who was clara morris the ac tress from becoming totally blind dr p h belcher family physician stated to-day every possible effort was being made to cure mrs herriott but that her sight was failing so rapidly it was difficult to see how blindness could be prevented the general condition of the actress aside from her eye trouble was somewhat worse to day and fear was expressed at the her riott household that she might not recover numerous visitors called to express sym pathy but were not permitted to see the patient earth goes through comet's tail unhurt scientists vindicated learn nothing new never touched me no cyanogen gas is found in 7 1-2 hours contact by a staff correspondent williams hay win may 18 no â€¢*.' nnogen gas that was ro have sent the mil lions of millions of inliatiitants of this good old world to laughing deaths no iilinv haze overspreading and enveloping the sphere on whieh we live ns a fog envelopes the land and the waters no untoward display in ihe heavens ro bril liant slower of meteors no shower of meteors that would play havoc with the oath end its people uo electrical disturb ancesâ€”no nothing marked the passage of the earth through the tall of halley's comet on as ea'm and as peaceful a night viewed from an astronomer's standpoint as is rarely seen the earth plunged into the tail at the appointed hour and seven or eight hours later â€” no one knows exactly when emerged unseathed unharmed un changed from outward appearances no one would have known that this event to which men of the seientifle world have heen looking forward with some treplda tiou and fear for years was taking plaee scientists watch in vain lu vain at the yerkes observatory where a distinguished gathering of eminent men was assembled were the giant telescopes the smaller telescopes the delicate record ing instruments the sensitized camera plates the machines for measuring the luminosity of the night light the spectra and all of the other contrivances of men of science and invention in vain were all city waits in vain for something to happen halley's comet is gone the fiery gas dealing wonder of the heavens which has startled inilllous of humans during he last few weeks swept the earth last night without causing dam age i'iie disasiers inch as the atter efface mem of life from lhe olie predicted hy the stiperstllions nnd liv sorcerers and as trologers failed lo materialise practically the only phenomena attending the earths passage through tha comet's tall apparent in Chicago ware meteoric showers nol visible however lo lhc baked eye an auroral display accompanied l an electrical storm and a clarification of the atmosphere a chemical analysis al tha ir while hie lail of lie oinci was passing mad al ncw vork showed lhc prose c of 21,76 per cent oxygon as aln*.t the jti per cent tin analysis indicated that the proximity n the stellar tiavc'e tea led to purify llie air neither ihe cornel's nucleus uor he tall was visible in any pan of the world yea terdav it will remain hidden from in hnbiinnis of the western hemisphere lure of european travel takes wife lawyer james edgar brown sues for divorce on de sertion charge infatuation for european life on the part of mrs adelaide reeve coolbaugh brown wife of james edsar brown a well knowu Chicago attorney and member of the hamilton club is given as the cause of the domestic diffi culties which resulted in a bill for divorce being tiled in the circuit court yesterday by mr brown who charges desertion ln liis bill mt brown recites that he was married june 3 1906 and that his wife deserted him october 15 isio7 mrs brown is now with her mother in ger many iler daughter cecelia :; years old is with her mr brown declared that the cause of the separation was his wife's desire to live in europe mrs brown is an excellent woman of irreproachable character said mr brown she possesses a brilliant mi ml ami remarkable linguistic attaiuments speak ing french german and italiau flu ently and i.s familiar with the history and literature of all european countries she has spent about fifteen years abroad au.l has acquired an infatuation for european life which s.ae seems unable or unwilling li overcome we were married in rome in 1906 trav eled all over europe and returned late tliat year wc resided iu chieago till oc tober 1907 when my wife went abroad again to be with her mother who was 111 and has not since returned the lure of european life has proven too strong for her sbe has deferred her re turn from time to time and i now learn that she bad no intention of returning al though i have often requested her to do so she desired iue to reside abroad but my professional duties required iny pres ence in Chicago our differences are tem peramental it is simply another unfortunate domes tic tra-'crly where two people after mar riage lind themselves wholly unsuited lo one another iu temperament habits and manner of life where each makes an effort to overcome the differences but fiucu it i impossible meteoric showers aurora borealis and clarification of air attend visit of sky tramp with the passing of the earth through the tail of halley's comet shortly after midnight absolute certainty took the place of conjecture which for weeks has set the entire world on edge there is nothing but the future of the comet now to deal with the earth entered the tail about 5 p m and emerged about 12:30 a m the comet and the tail both were invisible last night and will be invisible again to-night the comet will next be seen friday evening about 8 o'clock when a brilliant display will light up the entire west ern sky neither telescopes nor field glasses will be required the dis play will last about two hours and will be a sight never to be forgot ten according to astronomers in the eastern hemisphere the sun was darkened for a time dur ing the passage of the comet across its face burke on trail of 81,000 bribe fund in south Chicago bill sangamon county prosecutor investigates stories of cor ruption in sale of 3,000 000 land for 200,000 asserts belief that legislative ring has sandbagged corporations on botn good and bad measures graft inquiry at springfield resolves itself into six aims wayman declines invitation to meet burke six lines of inquiry in bribery scandal senatorial election in connection with which representatives charles a white h 3 c beekemeyer and michael a link are said to have confessed to cook county grand jury they were paid 1,000 each for voting for william lori mer activity of Illinois manufacturers as sociation at springfield iu suppressing factory inspection bills and other meas ures influences behind so-called corporation bill completely revising statutes regu lating charter powers of corporations and conferring right to own stock of other corporations statements of legislators that the li quo interests put up a fund to repeal or modify local option law representa tives joseph s clark am v c blair have sworn they declined preferred i bribes from liquor interests and rrepre i tentative h a shephard has testified that he was told liquor interests were offering to pay for votes '. recent purchase of 204 roll top desks for general assembly at cost of 2a 000 when according to secretary t stale rose new furniture not only is > not needed but is practically useless , greater south Chicago hill providing for sale of lake shore property at a rate which totaled 200,000 for land de clared to be worth 3,000,000 pur chasers were Illinois steel company and iroquois iron company rumor piaced bribe fund at 80,000 sis different lines of inquiry into the al leged corruption in the general assembly are now either under way before the san gamou county grand jury or planned for the immediate future making the investiga tion one of the most comprehensive of the kind ever undertaken in any state officials of predatory corporation b which year after year have contributed to legisla l tive jack pot funds in return for pro j tectton or special privileges are on the i anxious seat along with the venal legis lators whose votes they bought at bargain figures from now on it will be a desperate con test between the sangamon county authori ties and the men who have deliam-hed the legislature the one side to expose and punish the bribery of the servants of tlie ' people and the other at any cost to sup : press the facts silence the witnesses and i hi;ry iis guilt state's attorney burke brought lhe greater south Chicago bill into prominence m yesterday by taking cognizance of rumors ! that 80,000 had been spent o obtain its i passage officials of the Illinois si i company brand the rumor aa absurd land declare the reason the bill passed was tba ii was demanded by the property owner business men's organlzai ions and j labor unions of sooth Chicago ,; steel men may appear i according to a springfield dispatch the : j first witness to be summoned in this i branch of the inquiry will be representa i tive b m chiperfleld republican of can ton officials ot the interested steel coin 1 panics may also be subpoenaed meanwhile from an authoritative source v<>s:e..lay a new version was ol i the confessions of representative michael â– s link and h j c beckemeyei before the cook county grand jury ' the r.xamlner's authority coniirmed 1 rumors that link and beikemev wttty ' liat there was any agreement that they were to be paid for voting f - mi ner on the contrary they denied any such illicit agreement had been made riicy said they were paid 1,000 in st louis by representative lee g_sell browne shortly after lorimer's election but not to accordance with any previous promm l'1-.cy also confessed receiving 900 shares in the splitting of the jackp'-t i stink case is weakened the failure of representatives link and beekemeyer to corroborate the storj of representative charles a white in refer ence to the corrupt bargain in advance ot lorimer's election is held the state's case in cook county sgai lee o'neil browne whi<*ti | next tuesday although it is asserted that there is no doubt as to what the 1,060 payments were for state's attorney wayman ( cook county has never made public this feature of the l^jk and beckeineyer confessions and this continued on 4th page 2d column continued on 4th page 4th column free 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Chicago examiner thursday Chicago may 19 1910 14 pages thursday registered in c 8 patent offic f t _â€”_â– __- _._- â€” priÃŸ cooking for ojom m if you wish to obtain employment or k^'li desire to make a change read oie ex fv | \ j aminer want ads many good oppor %'~ j y \ tunities are offered dally ln the frf m fielp wanted columns if , price one cent gf Â»Â»Â«â€¢Â« y cÂ«ru 30 cents per aox_t rr~r r ""'" lnl!f ' j"**w i*;".i-*-i j____n_bc3p wl the weather m lvf/1 Chicago and vicinity partiy yjsfji t tr cloudy thursday and friday pos t j \, il sibly showers friday not much t â– *' l to change in temperature southerly m j_f winds (^ vol viii no 128 a m speaker cannon in excited plea to manufacturers declares shooting is too good for traitors like the insurgents . calls rebels judases urges employers to get their 5,000,000 workers to join in mighty battle njjw vork may 18 uncle joe can mjn speaker of the hous f uepresent bflves stood uke a man witli bis back to tke wall at ilie waldorf-astoria to-night and pleaded with the manufacturers of the country to save the republican port from defeat next november his plea won the applause of the members of the national manufacturers association who pledged him their wannest support uncle joe was so vehement iu liis ex j clamatious and s emphatic in ids punctua tions that lie frequently got beside him i self he strung his arms right and left ! pointed his lingers l,,se into the faces pfl those who sat beside him and was ssoin i pelled lo st,*;id himself for support on ilie ; chair of president kirby who sa along f side of him watson's sendees not needed speaker cannon brought along with bim ex-congressman lames watson of indiana j former republican whip in the house and j a devoted cannonite it wns said that mr i watson was on hand to follow the ener j i-'ctic and excited speaker and correct anj _ blunders lhat might creep into the can uon speech there were none of these j however despite mr cannon's obvious ex l citement the speaker branded the insurgents in j congress as traitors and declared thai in war time they would be hanged for deser ! tion of a leader under fire he likened them also to judas scariot whom he said { they would have underbid iu their anxiety to betray their master i ask you men of business and men of affairs he said that wheu you go to your homes you get iu touch with your live or six million employes and make a mighty right striking from the shoulder , and standing by the policy of the itepubli , nn party so that when the polls close next november you will give -Â„ repub lican majority in the national congress warmly defends tariff law the speaker warmly defended the payne tariff law and declared that under it 7,1 der cent of the importations of the coun try are admitted duty free ruder the walker tariff of 1860 a democratic tariff he declared the ratio of free importation was oniy lm per cent the policy of lincoln as written by himself in the platform of 1860 is the policy of the republican parly to-day we had a change in 189h of lhat poli.'y and we felt the tntter experience of that chauge and now our friends the enemy jo out to the farmers and say ou hew you are oppressed by wall street and how t manufacturers oppress you and bov on pay too mueh for your meat and coin ' " ob some one may say canuon is disappointed he is a czar dethroned 1 want to say to you that i might drop dead here th minute and there would be no one but iny children to mourn me i am spcaiciug as a plain man of the conditions in the house and the conditions in the senate this minute suggests hanging of traitors vou sny vhat are we goiug to do about uv if there were two great armies in actual war drawn up facing each other and in oue army were those who professed to be of it but refused to charge wheu the command was given by the general iu command and availed themselves of that condition to betray their army to the oppos ing forces you kuow what would be done with the traitors they would be shot shouted some one in the audience shooting would be au houorable death retorted lucie joe lu actual war they ivould be hanged to the nearest tree i wouldn't mind seeing our democratic and fopullstic friends have full power continued mr cannon it would then be up to tbem to re-enact a new tariff law they would then have that to defend and the presidential election of 1012 would hinge on the result i would welcome the sight of dolliver bristow la follette and others from the west join hands with champ clark sud reform the tariff i would welcome such a result calhoun asks warship v s minister to china reports 1m i_uietiiiji vnti-forcig*n rumors washington may 18 william j calhoun ameriean minister to china ad vised the state department to-day that there are disquieting anti-foreign and anti dynastie rumors at nanking not unlike those whieh preceded the boxer uprising about ten years ago the members of the cousular corps there mr calhoun added have presented a memorandum to the vice roy calling his attention to the serious condition and emphasizing the importance of taking immediate steps to check the anti-foriegn sentiment mr calhoun sug gested that an american warship be sent to nanking denver downs beast and votes referendum municipal ownership of water is carried and judge ben lindsey hails victory denver colo may is municipal ownership scored a triumph iu yesterday's election iu denver the denver union wa ter company being tumed down by more than 3,000 majority and tlie proposition to buy its plant or erect a new oae beiug car ried probably by a thousand vote judge ben b lindsey sees in the vote a big vic tory over the beast iu the jungle the citizens amendment for the initiative ref erendum and recall was carried by a few hundred majority the wel majority will run from 15,000 to 17,000 this is ibe first cily of impor tance where women bave ri>t ou the prohibition question the democrats have . elected ihe entire cily ticket excepting ihe ejection commis sion which i still iu doubt wiih twenty precincts io hear from it wiil be either democratic or * riii.titiii who visited america shoots himself special cahle to the examiner i.iindu.n may 18 captain claude champion de crespigny of the i ife guards a member of the hurlinghain clnb polo team that recently visited america committed suicide to-day b.v shootiug him self he was lhe son of sir claude de crespigny aiul served with distinction in the boer war duma's president jailed sentenced to month in fortress for fighting a dnel special cable to the examiner st petersburg may 18 alexander guchkoff president of the duma who fought a duel witb count uvaroff to set tle a political quarrel was tried and found guilty to-day and seutenced to a month's imprisonment in a fortress count cvaroff who was wounded in the shoulder by his adversary was let off with three weeks imprisonment 100 killed when barracks blow up 3,000 pounds of dynamite explode at pinar del rio cuba victims hurled a mile i 100 injured officers and families buried town showered by debris special cable to the examiuer havana may is two almost simul taneous explosions of dynamite i.oooj pounds in all demolished the rural guard ' barracks in the city of pinar del rio thisi afternoon killed fully a hundred persons j and wounded nearly as many more captain alfredo ravena and captain caspar be ten court of the garrison and their families are reported to be buried in tiie ruins of the officers quarters ad jacent to the barracks no other names have been learned here most of the dead were rural guards j but the entire families of several officers | of cue guard if is reported were killed also as well as some employes of the j public works department nnd residents ofi the city on which fell a deluge of masonry and other debris it is nol known whether the explosion wns ihe result of an accident or the work of conspirators but it probably was acci dental formerly u s headquarters several relief trains carrying rural guard surgeons officers and men and government officials started tbis afternoon from ha vana to the scene of the catastrophe 10s miles distant the barracks a massive building of spanish construction stood on a hill in the outskirts of the eity to the north during the late intervention it was the headquarters of colonel parker's regiment the eleventh v _. cavalry in consequence of the alarm over race disturbances the government ordered all deposits of dynamite in the i-vinity to be removed to the barracks for safe keeping accident during removal this afternoon the , work uf removing ; the dynamite from the barracks for ship tnent-tfr fife government magazines in havana was begun by employes of the public works department assisted by rural guards they were loading cases of the dynamite on wagons when a terrific explosion oc curred instantly followed by another strewing the central court in which the work was goiug on with dead and wounded the whole massive barracks building was destroyed the adjacent row of officers quarters was demolished and the whole northern section of the city was deluged with _ torrent of fragments of masonry victims blown a mile it is believed that the majority of the wounded are residents of the town as practically all within the barracks were in stantly killed or buried in the ruins according to reports received here mangled remains of victims wcre found in the streets of the city a mile from the scene of the explosion there is great anxiety iu havana for a large number of the rural garrison at pinar del rio recently were sent from this city where their families live clara morris is worse total blindne seems f'erlain actress physician say*s yoxkees x y may 18 xo hope now ; s entertained of preventing mrs i ,'. herriott who was clara morris the ac tress from becoming totally blind dr p h belcher family physician stated to-day every possible effort was being made to cure mrs herriott but that her sight was failing so rapidly it was difficult to see how blindness could be prevented the general condition of the actress aside from her eye trouble was somewhat worse to day and fear was expressed at the her riott household that she might not recover numerous visitors called to express sym pathy but were not permitted to see the patient earth goes through comet's tail unhurt scientists vindicated learn nothing new never touched me no cyanogen gas is found in 7 1-2 hours contact by a staff correspondent williams hay win may 18 no â€¢*.' nnogen gas that was ro have sent the mil lions of millions of inliatiitants of this good old world to laughing deaths no iilinv haze overspreading and enveloping the sphere on whieh we live ns a fog envelopes the land and the waters no untoward display in ihe heavens ro bril liant slower of meteors no shower of meteors that would play havoc with the oath end its people uo electrical disturb ancesâ€”no nothing marked the passage of the earth through the tall of halley's comet on as ea'm and as peaceful a night viewed from an astronomer's standpoint as is rarely seen the earth plunged into the tail at the appointed hour and seven or eight hours later â€” no one knows exactly when emerged unseathed unharmed un changed from outward appearances no one would have known that this event to which men of the seientifle world have heen looking forward with some treplda tiou and fear for years was taking plaee scientists watch in vain lu vain at the yerkes observatory where a distinguished gathering of eminent men was assembled were the giant telescopes the smaller telescopes the delicate record ing instruments the sensitized camera plates the machines for measuring the luminosity of the night light the spectra and all of the other contrivances of men of science and invention in vain were all city waits in vain for something to happen halley's comet is gone the fiery gas dealing wonder of the heavens which has startled inilllous of humans during he last few weeks swept the earth last night without causing dam age i'iie disasiers inch as the atter efface mem of life from lhe olie predicted hy the stiperstllions nnd liv sorcerers and as trologers failed lo materialise practically the only phenomena attending the earths passage through tha comet's tall apparent in Chicago ware meteoric showers nol visible however lo lhc baked eye an auroral display accompanied l an electrical storm and a clarification of the atmosphere a chemical analysis al tha ir while hie lail of lie oinci was passing mad al ncw vork showed lhc prose c of 21,76 per cent oxygon as aln*.t the jti per cent tin analysis indicated that the proximity n the stellar tiavc'e tea led to purify llie air neither ihe cornel's nucleus uor he tall was visible in any pan of the world yea terdav it will remain hidden from in hnbiinnis of the western hemisphere lure of european travel takes wife lawyer james edgar brown sues for divorce on de sertion charge infatuation for european life on the part of mrs adelaide reeve coolbaugh brown wife of james edsar brown a well knowu Chicago attorney and member of the hamilton club is given as the cause of the domestic diffi culties which resulted in a bill for divorce being tiled in the circuit court yesterday by mr brown who charges desertion ln liis bill mt brown recites that he was married june 3 1906 and that his wife deserted him october 15 isio7 mrs brown is now with her mother in ger many iler daughter cecelia :; years old is with her mr brown declared that the cause of the separation was his wife's desire to live in europe mrs brown is an excellent woman of irreproachable character said mr brown she possesses a brilliant mi ml ami remarkable linguistic attaiuments speak ing french german and italiau flu ently and i.s familiar with the history and literature of all european countries she has spent about fifteen years abroad au.l has acquired an infatuation for european life which s.ae seems unable or unwilling li overcome we were married in rome in 1906 trav eled all over europe and returned late tliat year wc resided iu chieago till oc tober 1907 when my wife went abroad again to be with her mother who was 111 and has not since returned the lure of european life has proven too strong for her sbe has deferred her re turn from time to time and i now learn that she bad no intention of returning al though i have often requested her to do so she desired iue to reside abroad but my professional duties required iny pres ence in Chicago our differences are tem peramental it is simply another unfortunate domes tic tra-'crly where two people after mar riage lind themselves wholly unsuited lo one another iu temperament habits and manner of life where each makes an effort to overcome the differences but fiucu it i impossible meteoric showers aurora borealis and clarification of air attend visit of sky tramp with the passing of the earth through the tail of halley's comet shortly after midnight absolute certainty took the place of conjecture which for weeks has set the entire world on edge there is nothing but the future of the comet now to deal with the earth entered the tail about 5 p m and emerged about 12:30 a m the comet and the tail both were invisible last night and will be invisible again to-night the comet will next be seen friday evening about 8 o'clock when a brilliant display will light up the entire west ern sky neither telescopes nor field glasses will be required the dis play will last about two hours and will be a sight never to be forgot ten according to astronomers in the eastern hemisphere the sun was darkened for a time dur ing the passage of the comet across its face burke on trail of 81,000 bribe fund in south Chicago bill sangamon county prosecutor investigates stories of cor ruption in sale of 3,000 000 land for 200,000 asserts belief that legislative ring has sandbagged corporations on botn good and bad measures graft inquiry at springfield resolves itself into six aims wayman declines invitation to meet burke six lines of inquiry in bribery scandal senatorial election in connection with which representatives charles a white h 3 c beekemeyer and michael a link are said to have confessed to cook county grand jury they were paid 1,000 each for voting for william lori mer activity of Illinois manufacturers as sociation at springfield iu suppressing factory inspection bills and other meas ures influences behind so-called corporation bill completely revising statutes regu lating charter powers of corporations and conferring right to own stock of other corporations statements of legislators that the li quo interests put up a fund to repeal or modify local option law representa tives joseph s clark am v c blair have sworn they declined preferred i bribes from liquor interests and rrepre i tentative h a shephard has testified that he was told liquor interests were offering to pay for votes '. recent purchase of 204 roll top desks for general assembly at cost of 2a 000 when according to secretary t stale rose new furniture not only is > not needed but is practically useless , greater south Chicago hill providing for sale of lake shore property at a rate which totaled 200,000 for land de clared to be worth 3,000,000 pur chasers were Illinois steel company and iroquois iron company rumor piaced bribe fund at 80,000 sis different lines of inquiry into the al leged corruption in the general assembly are now either under way before the san gamou county grand jury or planned for the immediate future making the investiga tion one of the most comprehensive of the kind ever undertaken in any state officials of predatory corporation b which year after year have contributed to legisla l tive jack pot funds in return for pro j tectton or special privileges are on the i anxious seat along with the venal legis lators whose votes they bought at bargain figures from now on it will be a desperate con test between the sangamon county authori ties and the men who have deliam-hed the legislature the one side to expose and punish the bribery of the servants of tlie ' people and the other at any cost to sup : press the facts silence the witnesses and i hi;ry iis guilt state's attorney burke brought lhe greater south Chicago bill into prominence m yesterday by taking cognizance of rumors ! that 80,000 had been spent o obtain its i passage officials of the Illinois si i company brand the rumor aa absurd land declare the reason the bill passed was tba ii was demanded by the property owner business men's organlzai ions and j labor unions of sooth Chicago ,; steel men may appear i according to a springfield dispatch the : j first witness to be summoned in this i branch of the inquiry will be representa i tive b m chiperfleld republican of can ton officials ot the interested steel coin 1 panics may also be subpoenaed meanwhile from an authoritative source v<>s:e..lay a new version was ol i the confessions of representative michael â– s link and h j c beckemeyei before the cook county grand jury ' the r.xamlner's authority coniirmed 1 rumors that link and beikemev wttty ' liat there was any agreement that they were to be paid for voting f - mi ner on the contrary they denied any such illicit agreement had been made riicy said they were paid 1,000 in st louis by representative lee g_sell browne shortly after lorimer's election but not to accordance with any previous promm l'1-.cy also confessed receiving 900 shares in the splitting of the jackp'-t i stink case is weakened the failure of representatives link and beekemeyer to corroborate the storj of representative charles a white in refer ence to the corrupt bargain in advance ot lorimer's election is held the state's case in cook county sgai lee o'neil browne whi